Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study was the CIA's apparent failure to uncover allegations of serious impropriety in Hugel's business practices when the agency ran its customary background check. One main objective of the screening process is to find out if a prospective CIA official could in any way be blackmailed-and "blackmail" was precisely what Hugel last week accused his former business associates of having threatened...
...someone else entirely. Morality was similarly skewed. In simple terms, his job was to protect good people from bad people--but since he was devoted to tracking down those who didn't play by the rules, he didn't have to either. He could lie, cheat, steal or blackmail--and as long as he did it skillfully enough not to be caught by either the authorities or his own supervisors, he was the better man. Finally, he could never become emotionally involved with a client, since, all the old movies aside, it usually ended up closer to suicide than...
...Corps, and John Patrick Egan, a U.S. government representative. Some 700 people were killed by guerrillas, most of them members of the security forces. The guerrillas kidnaped scores of businessmen, particularly foreigners, and companies such as Kodak, Exxon, Firestone and Ford paid out millions of dollars in ransom and blackmail. In the kidnaping of two scions of the Argentine trading conglomerate Bunge & Born, the guerrillas reportedly netted $60 million...
...Soviet stance. The announcement of the arms sale, no matter how small, added to tensions. In Moscow, Georgi Arbatov, director of the Soviet Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada, told TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott that the Haig trip was "all part of a campaign of blackmail against the Soviet Union and is just further proof that the talk coming out of Washington about resuming relations is insincere...
...shall answer, "It's none of your business." That must be very clear. But the fact that they have fear concerns us, of course. It would be an important question if we were dependent on the Communists for a majority. Then they would be in a position to-blackmail may be too strong a word-but to put pressure on us. If we have the absolute majority [in parliament], Communists in or out make no difference...